insert_link Food & Drink Pabst Labs Opens Cannabis-Focused Beverage Factory, Triples Capacity for THC-Infused Drinks Part of the appeal of Pabst Blue Ribbon is the brand's underdog story. Practically forgotten by the turn of the millennium, a groundswell of support helped bring the brand back to its current prominence. Among Pabst many innovations over the past few years — including hard coffee, hard seltzer, hard tea, and whiskey (no "hard" needed) — in 2020, now Pabst has granted the rights to Pabst Labs to begin […] todayApril 7, 2022
insert_link Health & Wellness Feeling Blue? Call Peptok to get an Emotional Boost from Elementary School Kids The Peptok emotional-support hotline won’t fix the world’s many ills—but it might make you smile at a time when you probably need some help in that department. The last few years have been a bit rough, to say the least, with a global pandemic, relentless traumas to marginalized communities, and now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s no wonder people are feeling particularly overwhelmed and anxious and people's mental and emotional […] todayMarch 17, 2022
insert_link Health & Wellness To block Omicron, you need a Mask that means Business NPR reports that with the especially virulent Omicron COVID-19 variant racing across the U.S., once again health authorities are urging people to mask up indoors. Yes, you've heard it all before. But given how contagious omicron is, experts say, it's seriously time to upgrade to an N95 or similar high-filtration respirator when you're in public indoor spaces. "Cloth masks are not going to cut it with omicron," says Linsey Marr, […] todayDecember 27, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness CDC doubles down on mask guidance as Covid cases and deaths surge across the nation The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today recommended universal mask use in all indoor settings, except when people are in their own homes, as part of a multipronged strategy to slow the nation's surge and speed economic recovery. The advice comes a day after the nation recorded new single-day highs for cases and deaths, as well as a record number of Americans hospitalized, and marks the first […] todayDecember 7, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple What is Contact Tracing? Friday, Google and Apple joined together for an ambitious emergency project, laying out a new protocol for tracking the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. It’s an urgent, complex project, with huge implications for privacy and public health. Similar projects have been successful in Singapore and other countries, but it remains to be seen whether US public health agencies would be able to manage such a project — even with the biggest tech […] todayApril 15, 2020
insert_link Food & Drink Will Meat be the next thing we can’t find on Grocery Store shelves? The U.S. is in danger of a meat shortage following closures amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the CEO of a major pork processing company said this week. Smithfield Foods CEO Kenneth Sullivan issued a statement confirming that the company's Sioux Falls, SD, facility will be closed until further notice. This comes after USA Today reported that 238 cases of coronavirus were linked to the plant. Sullivan warned that closures such […] todayApril 14, 2020
insert_link Health & Wellness Number of Uninsured Children Rises… Again For decades, getting more children to have health insurance was a cause with strong bipartisan support, and the uninsured rate has steadily declined. Now that trend is reversing. For the second year in a row, there was an uptick — 5.5% of children under age 19 did not have health insurance last year. And according to data just released from the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly half a million more kids […] todaySeptember 13, 2019
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